As the title indicates, the initial draft of Journey to Altmortis is now done. A quick word count revealed that it was a bit more under strength than I'd anticipated, but I'm not too worried about that right now.

Unlike Bane of Souls, when I tried to write as much as seemed right for the first draft (which obviously took longer), I've tried to get the story down as quickly as possible. A few chapters are essentially done but most of them need either quite a bit of polish or some additional scenes.

The first redraft will be focusing on a more detailed exposition of the world, as well as sharpening up the dialogue here and there . Hopefully I'll be able to get that more or less done with the first redraft and then the later revisions will focus on ironing out errors and chopping and changing the chapters so that they flow better.

I used to really hate redrafting, but I'm actually somewhat looking forward to it now. When it's done I expect it to be roughly the same size as Bane of Souls, though the story itself will be a bit grimmer.